Thank you to Novellas!

Just a quick thank you to Dawn at Novellas in New Paltz for allowing us to provide dessert to everyone at the Wedding Vendors of the Hudson valley meeting on Tuesday evening! Everything was fantastic and the space is beautiful! Be sure to check it out for your upcoming events!

In case you're wondering, the Wedding Vendors enjoyed a variety of Cake Devils sweets, including rainbow cookies, snickerdoodle cookies, soft molasses cookies, white chocolate & cranberry cookies during the event. They were also all given a cupcake in a box (some chocolate cake, some spiced Guinness cake) to take home... however, big surprise, none of them made it out the door! ;)

One VERY personalized Sweet 16 cake!

The CustomerThis Sweet 16 cake was, without a doubt, the most personalized cake we have ever made. It was one very special cake for one amazing young woman. In addition to being wowed by this young lady, working with this family to design her cake was such a nice experience. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to do this cake and have our lives touched by this family.

This birthday girl is one active girl! In our first contact with the family, we got some insight into all that she does. Let me tell you... the list goes on! We were quite impressed! She is one amazing young woman! The goal was to incorporate aspects from all of her activities onto the cake. They knew what they wanted on this cake and together we worked up a great design with them.

The FlavorsThere were two delicious flavors in this incredible four tier cake. The top two tiers were Red Velvet Cake with a Cream Cheese filling, iced in a Vanilla Buttercream and finished with a Vanilla Fondant. The bottom two tiers were Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake, with a Chocolate filling, iced in Chocolate Buttercream and finished with a Vanilla Fondant.

The DesignEach tier of this four tiered cake represented one aspect of the birthday girl's daily life.

Top Tier:She's a cheerleader! The top tier of this amazing design is filled with aspects of her cheerleading. Red and white are her school colors at North Rockland High School and the paw print represents her school's mascot.

Second Tier:She plays basketball on the Police Athletic League! This tier was done in a pale orange fondant to represent basketball, yet keep with the muted colors chosen for the design. Along with the obvious basketball items on this tier, you'll find her numbers and the PAL initials for the Police Athletic League.

Third Tier:She's an EMS volunteer! Impressed with her yet? I certainly am, and we still have one tier to go!! This tier was done in a light blue background to represent the colors of her ambulance corps in Stony Point, NY. Along with the really cute ambulance and other obvious items, you'll notice the letters SPAC, which stand for Stony Point Ambulance Corps.

Fourth Tier:And last, but certainly not least, she's a volunteer for the fire department! As I said in the beginning... amazing! This tier was done in a dusty gray fondant to keep with the muted background colors and makes a great representation of smoke! On this tier, you will again find the obvious items and, if you didn't guess by now, her number is 23.

The Wow FactorIn case there wasn't enough to wow you on this cake, we went and added one more amazing feature to it! The idea for this came from the birthday girl's mom. We were so inspired by this idea, we just ran with it! I'm sure we don't have to tell you what it is, but incase you missed the obvious... check out the birthday girl, in her turn out gear, climbing the ladder, with the hose, to put out the fire on her big 16! I will not lie, this was one of those things that we had no idea HOW we were going to do it. But, like everything else, we figured it out and it was awesome!

The FeedbackWe delivered this cake to Garnerville, NY on the day of the Sweet 16. It looked like it was going to be one fantastic party!! Well, apparently it was! We received such gratitude from this customer in the form of a Facebook thank you, and email and even a thank you note in the mail. They even included a photo of the cake on her thank you cards. It's gratitude like this that make what we do so special. :)The email: I just wanted to thank you for the beautiful cake. People were talking about it all night. I couldn't imagine how the design would actually come out but you guys did a great job making that come together the way you did for her. Thank you so much for everything and I am looking foward to using you again in the future. A lot of people asked where I got the cake and I gave them your cards or told them. Once again thank you for all the time and effort you put ino making that cake a possibility and adding to her great sweet 16.The Thank You Note and Facebook note can be found on our Facebook page!

All You Ever wanted to Know about Cake Devils & More! March Newsletter

Hello Everyone!! Spring is on it's way, though we hope everyone has been staying warm this winter. We have been busy little devils with lots of great NEWS to share! How well do you know the Cake Devils? Well, in case you missed it...

We hope you got a chance to tune in and hear us on WRCR with Richard Gandon of the Rockland Times and the Rockland Star last month. If not...it's not too late! You can still listen to our interview and learn a little more about us and what we do right on the news page of our website!

We also had a fantastic article published about us in the Hudson Valley Business Journal written by Catherine Portman-Laux talking about the 600 person event that we baked for in December.Did you catch our interview on Royal Photobooth's Vendor Spotlight? We hope so! But if you didn't, take a moment to check it out now! We are really excited to be exhibiting at the Rockland County Bridal Show Thursday, March 21st (postponed from 3/7 due to the weather so don't head over there tonight!) at the Crowne Plaza in Suffern, NY and at the Bethel Woods Wedding Expo on Saturday March 23rd at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, NY. We hope you stop by to see us, check out our work of course taste our devilishly delicious cake samples!

We can't believe it's February already! According to groundhogs Chuck and Phil, Spring is coming early this year! That makes us happy little Devils, because you know we love the warm toasty oven... we can't take the cold! We have been preparing for someupcoming events which we cannot wait to tell you all about. We have also been spending time on some special projectsand are working our tails off to make some big changes that will help grow our business. Our goal for 2013 is tospread the word about Cake Devils and obtain new customers. Have you enjoyed our cake, either for it's delicious taste, it's artistic beauty or better yet, for both? Then please, tell a friend. We can't tell you how much we appreciate your word of mouth business! Stay tuned for a couple of exciting projects coming to your inbox soon! One project will hopefully help to kick start our business and the other will give you the opportunity to earn free cake! Yes, you heard that right... free cake!! We've got you on the edge of your seat now, don't we? :D Thank you again to Sammi of Sammi's Blog of Life for sharing her feedback of Cake Devils with her readers.

And of course, for fun...we wanted to share some of our recent cakes with you!

Really??The holidays are here already???Where does the time go? Wow! It's been a whirlwind for the Cake Devils!!! We've been BUSY Little Devils!!! We have lots to be thankful for and lots to share with you. We'll try to keep this short and sweet, but it's not going to be easy! This Holiday Newsletter is jam packed!!! First we want to talk about the Orange County Partnership Annual Event which took place at Anthony's Pier 9 the beginning of this month. What an amazing opportunity that was for us! We would like to extend a great big THANK YOU to everyone at the Partnership for the fantastic opportunity. We are so proud of the amazing replica of the Mediacom building that we made as the centerpiece for this incredible, almost 600 person event! We also want to extend great thanks to Mediacom for getting us the photos and blueprints of the building which allowed us to create the building to scale. In addition, we have to thank Ryerson Studio for the YouTube video of the model they created, which we watched thousands of times while constructing our replica! (Check out Mike DelPriore's video here.) This, by far, was our largest(and most intense) project yet! On the night of the event, everything went off without a hitch. We successfully delivered the Mediacom building (that was too big to fit through a door), a ton of cake, 32 pounds of sauces and 10 pounds of sugar shards. We had a fantastic evening, met some AMAZING and INCREDIBLE people, and watched with glee as almost 600 people enjoyed our Devils Food Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream, Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Icing and Baileys Irish Cream Cake with Baileys Buttercream. We're still ecstatic from the rave reviews! :D

Congratulations once again to Mediacom on winning the Golden Shovel Award!

As we came down from that sugar high, quite a few days were filled with spicy Gingerbread, rather than cake, especially for Cake Devil Stacy! As you may know, Cake Devil Stacy teaches Wilton Method Cake Decorating Classes at the Michaels in Ramsey. More information can be found here. In preparation for teaching a gingerbread house class, I created an entire gingerbread village and did a gingerbread house demo at the store! This was quite a different experience from doing cakes!

Then we received an invitation (ok, request for help) from a friend who is a member of the Artists In the Parkfor Cake Devils to join them as mentors at The Bear Mountain Inn as they created Gingerbread Houses to be raffled off for the holiday season. The day was a lot of fun and we met some wonderful people and made some great contacts!!! The Bear Mountain Inn recently reopened after 7 years, and it's absolutely beautiful. We highly recommend checking it out! The Artists are a group of really great people and did a fantastic job!! Check out their work:

With the holidays upon us, we hope that you are all as excited as we are for this festive season. It’s our first holiday season as Cake Devils and as we look back upon this past year, we are overwhelmed with joy by all of the support that we have received. From the start we have had many opportunities to provide the service and product that we love most...delicious and exquisite cakes! All year long, we have been fortunate to help you celebrate many birthdays, showers, weddings and other joyful occasions. The feedback we have received has been uplifting and amazing and we couldn't be more appreciative. Equally exciting were the events we were able to partake in, such as the People to People fair, the Wedding Wire Networking Event, Anthony's Pier 9 bridal show, and, we’re thrilled to have become active members of the Wedding Vendors of the Hudson Valley, just to name a few. These opportunities have allowed us to share our unique products and services and have provided us the chance to meet people who have been able to help us grow and develop our business. We cannotthank you enough...and we are really excited for the plans we have in the works for the new year. We have some big changes coming and some exciting things happening! We thank you for all you have shared with us this year.Of course, this wouldn’t be our newsletter if we didn’t share some recent cakes with you!

With so much sadness in the news recently, it's more important than ever to count our blessings and make the most of everyday. We wish you and your loved ones all a joyous and peaceful holiday seasonand a wonderful new year. Take the time to enjoy life. Tell your family you love them. Hug them a little tighter this year. Celebrate the good times and always make sure there’s a cake involved!:D From our kitchen to yours, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!